Wall Street and Produce Exchanges Report Wide Flood Damage
Special telegrams report rising Mississippi River Valley and Louisiana floods disrupting trade and transport. Domestic iron and stock markets show weakness with reduced New York Stock Exchange activity. grains and cotton futures mixed while wheat exports rise amid weather and banking data.
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New York
Broilstret's
Mississippi River
Louisiana
New Orleans
Chicago
Pittsburg
Cumberland's New Steel and Tin Plate Works Opens
Cumberland Steel and Tin Plate Company will open Monday in Cromperiaxo Missouri. The steel mill will start with 100 workers and reach 500 as operations expand. The tin plate mill will begin within nine days employing 200, with output contracted to a Chicago beef company. Lehighton Car Spring Company will start constructing a building and hire about 10 workers. Combined employment nears 1000.
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Chicago
Lehighton Car Spring Company
Business Brevities Highlights Labor Strikes and Markets
The itemization notes nine hour days with ten pay in Louisville marble cutting, stalled brickmakers in Toronto, and a $1,730,000 gold shipment from New York to Europe. It reports tax and trade shifts, mine inspections removal petitions, new company charters in Pennsylvania, and proposed railroad ventures with assorted capitalizations.
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Louisvitte
Toronto
New York
Europe
Black Sea
Azof
D. M. Atrxayxpen
Vernon
Tex
Leoroto Waitzrrat
Philadelphia
Railway Interests Signal Growth and New Ventures
The National Association of Railway Claim Agents meets in Detroit while the Chicago and East Illinois Railroad declares a quarterly dividend on preferred stock. Canadian Pacific explores a rapid Vax Horx service between British Columbia and Australia. Tamaqua coal lands may attract Pennsylvania Company purchase. Boston and Maine contracts a Boston elevator project using over 3 million feet of spruce. The Chicago Evansville and Southern line forms with Dr. A M Owen as president backed by Porter of Chicago and Eastern Illinois.
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Tur
Chicago and Eastlnois Railroad Company
Presipect
Vax Horx
Canadian Pacific
British Columbia
Australia
Pennsylvania Company
Tamaqua
Boston and Maine Railroad Company
Boston
yxEn
Chicago, Evansville
Fire Reports From Multiple Cities
The Fire Record notes damages in Detroit at 25 000 pounds to Michaels machine shop and in Dundee Scotland docks a large flax and jute loss. in Williamsport Pennsylvania 5 000 barrels of petroleum tank fire with 3 000 saved. in Brooklyn a fire on the cotton in the forehold of the St Pancras steamship, cargo valued at 100 000 dollars.
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Detroit
Michaels
Dundee
Scotland
Williamsport
Tide Water Company
Brooklyn
St. Pancras
Columbia
British and Foreun Steamship Company
Officer Shoots Self at Fort Sam Houston
First Lieutenant Wilbur Loveridge of the Third Artillery U S Army killed himself in his quarters at Fort Sam Houston San Antonio on Thursday night. The body was found at 9 am with a bank book showing over 100 dollars deposited and a note referencing a check. He was 52 and unmarried and his death was attributed to excessive liquor use.
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San Antonio
Tex
Wilbur Loveridge
Third Artillery
U. S. Army
Fort Sam Houston
Rochester
N. Y
E. L. Loveridge
Eleventh Infantry
Whipple Barracks
Arizona
Lockwood Natio Bank
Witain Loverannce
Loveridze
Republican Platform Features Endorsement at Minneapolis
Delegates in Minneapolis outline key Republican platform planks with a pro American, protectionist arc. They back Harrison era policies, the McKinley tariff, reciprocity, naval expansion, coast defenses, immigration controls, and pensions for veterans. The Nicaragua Canal and civil service reforms are highlighted, along with a push for fair federal elections and opposition to Democratic intervention.
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Minneapolis
Republican Party
Associated Press
Harrison
Blaine
United States
House
Blaine Alger circular endorses Blaine for President and Alger for Vice President
A Michigan circular distributed at a Blaine Alger gathering promotes James G Blaine for president and General Alger for vice president. It lists eight reasons including reciprocity and protection, church and school separation, and enfranchising Southern Black voters, noting support from Republicans and conservative Democrats. The circular also features Ingersoll's nominating speech and states Alger approved the document.
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Alger
Blaine-Alger
Harrison
Minneapolis
Blaine
Michigan
Fremont
Dayton
Aesphab
Orig
Republican Party
Republican Rty
Maine
South
Robert G. Ingersoll
Detroit
Gavotte
Langston Attacks Harrison Over Colored Rights in Catcaco
Langston says only Blaine can deliver justice for Southern Negroes and lambasts Harrison for neglecting Colored people. He claims Black voters hold sway in Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and could affect Harrison’s nomination. He criticizes Attorney General Miller as unfriendly and accuses Harrison of snubbing the Colored in World’s Fair appointments.
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Catcaco
John M. Langston
Blaine
Langston
Illinois
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Harrison
Miller
Lew Wallace Denounces Blaine Letter as Official
Lew Wallace declares Blaine’s letter an official document to be respected and predicts Harrison will win on the first ballot. He notes attempts to stampede delegates and pack galleries with Blaine criers, while accusing opposition leaders of personal grievances.
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Blaine
Minneapolis
Lew Wallace
Harrison
Biniie
Blaine Criers
Four Steamboatmen Drowned When John Matthews Sank
The steamer John Matthews bound for Pine Bluff struck a pier on the Arkansas river and sank at 1 am. Fourteen aboard were saved while four crew members Ed Campbell Wallace Aikens George Hall Tom Taylor died. Captain Blakeley and two roustabouts were rescued by clinging to a log. Engineer Hathaway and his three children were pulled out in critical condition. The Merchants' Transportation Company owned the boat.
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Hathaway
Merchants’ Transportation Company
Market House Contract Awarded To Fred Benz
Chief Bigelow yesterday awarded the contract for the erection of the Southside Market to Fred Benz for 33700 dollars. The decision sets Benz to start work promptly, marking a major step in completing the new market facility for the city.
Wanamaker Denies Pneumatic Tube Corruption Claims
Postmaster General Wanamaker replies to Representative Henderson refuting Leake’s charges about Philadelphia pneumatic tubes. He states no appropriations or authority exist for the service and assures no government commitment, while detailing correspondence with Leake and Philadelphian officials.
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WasuHinecex
Wanamaker
Representative Henderson
House Committee On Post Offices and Postroads
Samuel F. Leake
Pneumatic Transportation Company of
Philadelphia
John Field
James G. McHenry
Black Pastor Weds White Woman in Paterson Ceremony
The wedding of Rev J D Blake, a Southern born African Methodist Episcopal Church pastor, to Maria Granger, a Manchester born white woman, drew a mixed crowd in Paterson New Jersey. The bride wore steel gray satin and bonnet. guests toasted as Mrs Blake kissed congratulating babies.
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New York
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Paterson
N. J
J. D. Blake
North Carolina
Boston
India
Porwat
Manchester
Eng
Miss Maria Granger
Miss Granger
Miss Hadfield
J. Hadfield
M. P
Mr. Blake
England
Mrs. Blake
Reading Railroad Announces Four Day Work Week
Palo Alto shops of the Reading Railroad will require employees to work four days a week despite ample work. Over 200 freight and 100 coal cars await repairs while shops close until Monday. The policy mirrors other divisions where all shops operate on the same schedule. The collieries remain active.
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Pottsville
Reading Railroad
Palo Alto
Doctors Copeland Hall and Byers Claim Superior Cure Rates
The article argues that Drs Copeland Hall and Byers achieve higher cure rates than other methods, acknowledging some failures. It notes many chronic cases, previously deemed incurable by local physicians, seek their long term treatment, with fees reduced to five dollars monthly to attract patients and provide medicine.
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Drs. Copeland
Byers
Dra. Copeland
Hall
Dra. Copelan Hail and
Copeland
Miracle Cure for Mrs Gorman by Copeland Hall Byers
Mrs Gorman of Sawyer Street credits Drs Copeland Hall and Byers with a miraculous recovery from neuralgic head pains mouth ulcers and stomach derangement. She improved from near starvation to able to do housework for eight and urges others to seek treatment by mail using their diagnostic form and monthly program.
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Mary Gorman
Copeland
Hall and Byers
Hall
Byers
Ar Gorman
Sawyer Street
Eighteenth Ward
Dre, Copeland, Hall Ax Byers
Lewis Zollinger
Drs. Copeland, Hall and Byers
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